Improvement in clothes-driers



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LEONARD D. HOWARD,- or sr. JoHNsBUrnr, VERMONT.

Letters Patent No. 111,747, dated February 14, 1871.

IMPRVEM'ENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

The Scheruiagrefen'ed to in these Letters Patent -and making part' of the same.

I, LEONARD D. HOWARD, of St. J ohnsbury, Galedonia county, Vermont, have invented certain Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specitioation.

Figure lis a sectional elevation, and

Figure 2 vis a perspective view.

This invention relates to a clothes-drier', in which any desired number ot' rings is placed in succession upon a supporting-rod, each ring having afsooket cast upon its exterior', for the recept-ion ot' the arm on which the clothes are hung; and

The invention consists in the combination of' said arm and. socket, when the former is provided with a hook, and is so arranged'that, when the arm is thrust back into the socket, it is held thereby at right angles with the supporting-rod, and when the arm is drawn ont of the socket, the hook catches over the latter',

and the arm hangs suspended thereby.

-Reierring to the drawinga` is the supporting-rod, mounted in lugs that extend from the. bracket b, which is intended -to be fastened to a Wall.

[c are the rings that are placed on the supportingrod, each ring fitting partly within the one next above it.

el are the sockets that are cast with and extend from the rings.

e are the wooden arms, and t, the hooks, the latter' being fastened in the lower sides ofthe arms, and near their inner ends, and extending downward through the openings in the bottoms ot' the sockets.

As long as the arms are. thrust back into the sook- I 

